Director, Security Engineering & Operations

The Director of Security Engineering and Operations will lead a multi-disciplinary team that provides engineering development for key security platforms and solutions as well as operations teams that ensure clients Bank remains a safe place to do business.

This role is accountable for ensuring the timely delivery of recent security solutions and capabilities that further advance our Security Strategy, and ensuring those platforms are maintained to our heightened standards as defined through the Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) Center of Excellence). This role is also accountable for collaborating with the Johnston, RI Fusion Center to provide a Follow-the-Sun operational capability for cyber and technology event detection and incident response. This is role is pivotal to helping achieve availability, performance, recovery, and security posture across critical services while partnering with other SRE functions across ET&S.;

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership




- Oversee security engineering teams that are delivering platforms and solutions that achieve the Security Strategy.
- Assist in the implementation and delivery of the SRE capabilities for Security Technology solutions, including roadmap, operating model, and success metrics.
- Lead and develop a team of Security SREs; drive hiring, coaching, performance management, and career growth.
- Establish a culture of blameless learning, automation, engineering rigor, and pragmatic risk management.

Reliability + Security Engineering Outcomes
- Build security reliability capabilities such as:
- Secure service baselines (hardening, guardrails, policy-as-code, secure defaults)
- Resilience engineering (fault tolerance, graceful degradation, chaos testing)
- Recovery engineering (backup integrity, DR readiness, restore automation)
- Security observability (detection engineering + actionable telemetry)
- Drive improvements to SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and operational maturi

📌 Principal Cyber Security Arch (Pune)
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